spookyfooks Reviews

Hit and Run (2009 Video)

horror offbeat

[7/10 · 19 September 2011]

Is actually not bad small horror movie. The way they made the movie is a little peculiar style but I think it worked, considering it seem meant as purely entertainment. I thought scary in parts and I particular like use of cinema technique, screen "wipe", "split screen" and such elements taken from the 1970s movies and some twisty plot. The result is often enjoyable B movie style, with some mixed results bad and good. The main character deliver a good anti-hero performance but must be 'dumb girl' to make it work, or maybe the point is girl is making all wrong decisions in emergency situation due to panic.

After hour of a suspense game with some gore elements, the action kicks to a crazy revenge story, which for me is best part of last 30 minutes. Mostly it succeeds to defy the convention in low key manner, while still use some typical horror thriller formula styles. You may have to check your sense of logic at the door for some of it, but this is weird movie.

Thesis (1996)

Thesis: First half exciting, second half too seedy and slow

[3/10 · 2 September 2010]

"Thesis" by director Alejandro Amenábar is interesting movie. The first part builds up suspense well. Angela is doing an examination paper at film school in Madrid. She wants to explore why is death and killing so fascinating to so people.

She teams up with another student called Chema, who is pathologically obsessed with violence. They discover snuff movie that shows a young woman torture horribly and killed. When they find out it was actually a student at the university, things take more drastic turn into the morbid.

While the first half was done fairly gd the second part of the movie was a big disappointment. It moved at a snail's slow pace and was far too seedy to be enjoyable to my taste, even if the point is that maybe we should not explore these types of things past certain limits.

I would have rate this higher, but the movie took a turn for the worse. If you into snuff movie analysis, this is probably worth a look, otherwise stay away.